New York’s Bueno were one of our favourite discoveries of last year and will release their sophomore album Illuminate Your Room, on the 19th of next month via Exploding In Sound and Babe City Records. The band have shared two tracks to date from the record, the first single I Got Your Back focused the band’s indie punk with a laid back college rock feel and Eye On … Continue reading New Album From Bueno
Honey Bucket is a mutant pop trio formed in 2012 in Portland, they spent last year preparing their debut album Magical World, which is out via See My Friends Records on August 15th. Pop sensibilities are thrown into relief by challenging rhythms and textures with past influences ranging from The Clean and Television Personalities through to present day contemporaries like Parquet Courts and Speedy Ortiz. Check out the ramshackle … Continue reading Honey Bucket – Devo Hat
Here we are again. This week we have selected 10 new songs from the week’s releases all for your expert consideration. They include fresh tracks from Gringo Star and Crocodiles, brilliant rolling Americana from Golden Suits, the return of Batwings Catwings and plenty more besides. Enjoy Gringo Star – Heading South Golden Suits – Is It Wrong Crocodiles – Telepathic Lover Vomitface – Chew Toy Emily … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We’re a little late to the party with this one, but it is such an infectiously good slice of retro new-wave pop that we had to share it anyway. The track is Somehow by Stockholm’s Delagoon and it sounds like it has been dragged directly from the 80s heyday of The Cure, The Teardrop Explodes et al, and then spiced up with a dash of Scandinavian dream-pop. … Continue reading Delagoon – Somehow
Gun Is Coming is a wonderful slice of swampy folk with radical gospel roots and more than just a whiff of the blues. It is taken from the upcoming debut from Baltimore singer-songwriter Ian Francis and can be grabbed for a pay-what-you-want deal from Bandcamp here. Continue reading MM Shorts 858: Ian Francis
Having already posted the excellent Don’t Say Sorry and Third War from hectic, Aussie art-punks TERRY, we now have another tune to share with you from their debut album Terry HQ. This time it is Chitter Chatter, a perfectly judged mish-mash of 70s influenced NY punk and some twisted, bittersweet glam-pop. Marvellous stuff – listen below. Continue reading TERRY – Chitter Chatter
Sarah Persephona is Russian artist angelic milk – a purveyor of bedroom based grungey pop tracks shot through with a healthy dose of teenage angst, and set to some pretty insanely catchy melodies. Her debut EP, Teenage Movie Soundtrack is out next week, and is four tracks of expertly crafted grunge pop ranging from the sweet romance of Rebel Black to the punk strut of Ripped Jeans. The … Continue reading angelic milk – Tie Me Up
Residual Echoes frontman Adam Payne releases his new solo album Famous Blondes on the 22nd July via Selection Records. It is a record where no genre, style, or sound is hands-off. There’s the late-night folk funk of Tell Me and Nightmare, the ham-fisted fey glam of Eyes of the World, the neon go-kart slow burner U. Angel, and even doo-wop filth in Open Up. Stream Tell Me below. Continue reading MM Shorts 857: Adam Payne
With more than passing nods to Alvvays, The Jesus & Mary Chain and Angel Olsen, Gothenburg’s Holy Now trade in a veritable pop dream of delirious vocals, riveting guitar solos and complex sensibilities that is tinged throughout with the faintest whiff of melancholy. Debut single Wake Up, backed with Please Love Me, is out on the 19th August via Beech Coma. Listen below. Continue reading Holy Now – Wake Up
Having shared a couple of tracks already from psychedelic garage rockers Ranch Ghost’s just released album Lookin, here is another in the shape of Bleu. It is a potent Southern backwater concoction, with elements of 60s and 70s psychedelia and a chugging Velvets undertone. Spin it here. Continue reading Ranch Ghost – Bleu
The Mad Mackerel 